Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHOTOGRAPHY IS at once the most seductive and deceptive of art forms, in Sontag's view. Its seductiveness lies in the apparent proximity of photographic visions to life itself. Its deception lies in the fact that the proximity is only apparent. The photographic vision depicts a reality very different from life's reality. Time is frozen in a photograph; continuous in life. The experience of photography involves only one sense; the experience of life involves all. Such differences between photographic reality and actual reality lead Sontag to conclude that "surrealism is at the heart of the photographic enterprise...
...bloodiest and bitterest of the Pacific war, 6,821 Americans and all but 212 of the 22,000 Japanese defenders died there in 1945. Midway through their fight, on Mount Suribachi, the straining Marines raised the U.S. flag in a scene captured for posterity in a famous photograph. Their feat was commemorated on a bronze tablet laid atop Suribachi, with the U.S. flag flying above it. Now the flag has been lowered as a concession to Japanese sensibilities, and in its place a copper flag has been raised. When a treaty is signed this week or next, the U.S. will...
McCarthy's Madison headquarters is in a rented store front on Mifflin St.--one side of a pie-shaped block facing the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds. Around the block on Hamilton St. is the State Democratic Headquarters. In its window, beneath a framed color photograph of President John F. Kennedy, are rows of bumper stickers reading "LBJ for the U.S.A." This is Johnson territory...
Noticeably Clearer. Nonetheless, Stroke says, all of the details of the photographed object are contained in the picture. The overlapping of spots, no matter how blurred the image, can be expressed in complex mathematical terms called Fourier transforms. Applying mathematical theory to holography, which also produces interference patterns that can be expressed by Fourier transforms, Stroke set up the optical equivalent of an equation. Using laser light, he made two transparencies -one of the blurred photograph of a microscope, the other of a purposely blurred picture of a spot of light shot by the same camera. Then he produced...
Having set up the optical equivalents of Fourier transforms, Stroke beamed laser light first through the transparency of the blurred microscope photograph and then through a "dividing" filter that consisted of both the hologram and the transparency of the blurred spot of light; in mathematical terms, he had thus divided one transform by another. Projected onto film the beam produced a crude but noticeably clearer picture of the microscope. Stroke had solved his optical equation...